The first chapter of this work contains a reproduction of "Wheatfield with Crows" with the instruction to "look at it for a moment. Then turn the page," after which the reader sees identical reproduction with the note that th
The first chapter of this work contains a reproduction of "Wheatfield with Crows" with the instruction to "look at it for a moment. Then turn the page," after which the reader sees identical reproduction with the note that this was "the last picture that Van Gogh painted before killing himself." This work notes that publicity is "the last moribund form" of post-Renaissance European visual art, rather than its supplantation; the page on which that sentence appears juxtaposes the images of an advertisement for Armstrong flooring and an anonymous 19th-century painting of Carlo II of Parma and his family. Venus of Urbino, Olympia, and La grande odalisque are used to demonstrate that women are the subjects of the gaze and men are the performers of the gaze in the third among the four text-and-image and three image-only sections of this book, which was inspired by ideas from "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." For 10 points, name this book of essays, meant to accompany a BBC television series of the same name, that questions typical interpretations of the European painting tradition, whose assembly was coordinated by John Berger.
The first chapter of this work contains a reproduction of "Wheatfield with Crows" with the instruction to "look at it for a moment.
{Ways} of {Seeing}